"Artists Beware"

I apologize if this is not my place to post but I feel that we should all be aware and help an artist on deviantart.

One of her paintings was recently ripped off by a high schooler and said high schooler has won 2 gold medals from her piece of "art".

The deviantArt artist talks of her experience in her journal here:
http://yuumei.deviantart.com/journal/31928904/

( Copy/Pasta'd her journal )
I have cross-posted this to art_theft as well. If there are any other places that would be a great place to post this, please if you can spread the news of this.

I'd like to apologize again if this post is not meant for here and will not take offense if admins delete this post.
~K.


FYI:: I ended up having to do a search for the facebook group. But if you type in "Kasey Bowman is an Art Thief", you should get it as the first result

::EDIT::
For people who can not view it or don't have deviantart here's the ORIGINAL image being ripped.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g83/mukistudios/Selfish_by_yuumei.jpg


::EDIT2:: Scholastic has already revoked the awards and scholarship and has removed the art from all sites. Should we say that this is resolved? I'm not sure. Personally, I'm more miffed at how Scholastic was giving yuumei the run around until they were hit by the angry mob. So, until they change their policy, we won't know.

I apologize if this is not my place to post but I feel that we should all be aware and help an artist on deviantart.

One of her paintings was recently ripped off by a high schooler and said high schooler has won 2 gold medals from her piece of "art".

The deviantArt artist talks of her experience in her journal here:
http://yuumei.deviantart.com/journal/31928904/

( Copy/Pasta'd her journal )
I have cross-posted this to art_theft as well. If there are any other places that would be a great place to post this, please if you can spread the news of this.

I'd like to apologize again if this post is not meant for here and will not take offense if admins delete this post.
~K.


FYI:: I ended up having to do a search for the facebook group. But if you type in "Kasey Bowman is an Art Thief", you should get it as the first result

::EDIT::
For people who can not view it or don't have deviantart here's the ORIGINAL image being ripped.
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g83/mukistudios/Selfish_by_yuumei.jpg


::EDIT2:: Scholastic has already revoked the awards and scholarship and has removed the art from all sites. Should we say that this is resolved? I'm not sure. Personally, I'm more miffed at how Scholastic was giving yuumei the run around until they were hit by the angry mob. So, until they change their policy, we won't know.